Harnessing nature's timekeeper: a history of the piezoelectric quartz crystal technological community (1880-1959)
In 1880, French brothers Jacques and Pierre Curie discovered the phenomenon of piezoelectricity in naturally occurring quartz crystal, sometimes referred to as 'nature's timekeeper.' By 1959, tens of millions of devices that exploited quartz crystal's piezoelectric character were...
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Georgia Institute of Technology
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28255 |